At last the Symbian phaseout is almost complete. Only 2.2 million Symbian handsets were sold in the quarter. The rest of smartphone sales (9.6 million units) consisted of Asha full touch phones. Asha is a popular low-cost option in developing markets and uses its own proprietary bare-bones operating smartphone operating system.

Nokia Lumia 920

While smartphone sales are down almost 20 percent from the 19.6 million units Nokia moved last year, the drop off was less severe than analysts were expecting. And the fact that roughly two-thirds of Nokia high-end smartphones are now Windows Phone indicates that the transition is almost finished.

As a result of the cost cutting coupled with stronger sales, Nokia says it has achieved underlying profitability again. That's a huge development for the OEM who endured severalpainful quartersof large losses. Nokia estimates it pocketed €30M ($39.8M USD) in non-recurring IPR income on total sales of €3.9B ($5.2B USD).

Overall Nokia sales of all mobile devices fell to 79.6 million units -- from a volume of 113 million units last year. Nokia recently lost its global lead in handset (including non-smartphone sales) to South Korea's Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930).

Nokia stock jumped up over 20 percent in early trading on the hopeful news.

Gartner, Inc. (IT), a top mobile research firm, has estimated that by 2015 that Windows Phone will be the #2 smartphone platform in the world, bumping Apple and its increasingly-dated Palm-style user interface to third place.

quote: bumping Apple and its increasingly-dated Palm-style user interface to third place.

First, Apple is number one in profit, design, apps, and pretty much every other category that matters.

Second its user interface is the best in the market, according to DailyTech's own partner Anandtech. DialyTECH should not post this crap by Mick.

He is a biased troll for Crapdroid and Micro$oft.

quote: I hope they can keep it up. I'm not planning on buying Nokia anytime soon, but I'd hate to see them gone. They did a lot of good things prior to the touch-only era.

Nokia is a patent troll and sues productive, innovative companies like Apple.

quote: But I'm not sure how selling 4.4 million WP units is a good sign, yet 2.2 million Symbian units is considered "almost phased out".

You're right there. Nokia's sales are crap. Apple sold how many iPhone's again?

And Nokia, just like Crapdroid gives its phones away.

I can't wait to hear all you butthurt Crapdroid and Windows Clone fanboys to try to defend yourselves.

Ultimately Micro$oft and Crapdroid will die out.

You'll get iPhones eventually and then change your tunes. The iPhone has the most beautiful, simple, perfact easy to use interface on the market. If you're not a biased troll like Mick you would realize that. Trust Anand, not Mick.

"First, Apple is number one in profit, design, apps, and pretty much every other category that matters."

Well, profit yes.

"Second its user interface is the best in the market"That was 5 years ago. Sadly IOS still looks the same and has been surpassed by ALL of its competitors.

There... My Troll feeding is done. I hope you enjoyed yourself and feel better now that you have made an aass of yourself in the name of Apple. Why on earth anyone would go to such lengths for a company is beyond me... I guess you probably dont have much joy in your life to take a company so seriously.

quote: First, Apple is number one in profit, design, apps, and pretty much every other category that matters.

Apple is very strong in the consumer space - and number 1 in many categories there is no doubt.

It's easy to only focus on the consumer space as it's the one that's most visible in our day-to-day lives, however there are other areas that actually really matter (ie: what technologies businesses use to support themselves).

Apple has not done well in the business space (SMB/Mid Market/Enterprise). As an example, Apple doesn't actually have their own technology to operate their iTunes and AppStore, or have developed their own ERP. They run SAP as an ERP. To operate the itunes and appstore, they are running SAP Convergent Charging, SAP Convergent Invoicing, and SAP Customer Financial Management (they've invested hundreds of millions of dollars). Oh, all that infrastrure - doesn't run on OSX and they use a combination of Microsoft, and Oracle systems to support SAP.

Neither will the troll he was replying to. All he saying is that while Apple is #1 in a lot of areas, MS and the lot that macdevdumbass is saying are dying is just simply not the case and that the services from Apple that he loves sooo much are powered by the same companies Apple battles in the consumer space.

You balk at the idea of them rewriting webserver or making there own back end but didn't they just replace googlemaps with their own map system? oh yeah...wait, yup, gotcha.

I re-read it and the point was clear to me. Here's a tl;dr: He said Apple is #1 in all areas that matter. I said no, not true - the enterprise space is an example where they are not and it's a significant market and I gave an example of it.

"If you look at the last five years, if you look at what major innovations have occurred in computing technology, every single one of them came from AMD. Not a single innovation came from Intel." -- AMD CEO Hector Ruiz in 2007